It is another afternoon escape into a labyrinth of music shining a beacon on the unsung, should-be-sung, and will-be-sung recordings that clutter the maze’s dusty corridors that crisscross time and continents. It’s freeform radio for those who listen to music, not just hear it.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965

Quo Vadis – Zeppelin Party -Various: Tetes Lourdes – 1970
Stark Naked – Sins – Stark Naked – 1971
Alice Cooper – Apple Bush – Pretties For You – 1969
John Entwistle – Heaven and Hell – Smash Your Head – 1971

The Lyres – We Sell Soul -Nobody But Lyres – 1992
13th Floor Elevators – She Lives (In A Time Of Her Own) – Easter Everywhere – 1967

Moondog – HIgh On A Rocky Ledge – H’art Songs – 1979
Michael Yonkers and Jim Woehrle – Smile Awhile On Me – Borders Of My Mind – 1974

Steve Gunn – Way Out Weather – Way Out Weather – 2014
Grateful Dead – Wharf Rat – Grateful Dead – 1971
Chris Joss – Charmer – Sticks – 2009

Neko Case – Knock Loud – Canadian Amp – 2001
PJ Harvey – The :Life and Death of Mr. Badmouth – Uh Huh Her – 2004
Fraction – Come Out Of Her -Canadian Amp – 2009
Gun Club – Walkin’ With The Beast – The Las Vegas Story – 1984

The Kinks – Mr. Big Man – Sleepwalker -1977
Warren Zevon- Genius – Genius – Genius: The Best Of Warren Zevon  – 2001

Ultravox! – The Frozen Ones – Ha! Ha! Ha! – 1977
Roxy Music – Sea Breezes – Roxy Music – 1972
Hildegard Knef – Friedenskampf und Schadenfreude  -Hildegard Knef – 1970

Bobb Trimble – One Mile From Heaven -Iron Curtain Innocence – 1980

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965

XTC- Are You Receiving Me? – Go 2 – 1978
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band – Sheriff of Hong Kong – Doc at the Radar Station – 1980
Butthole Surfers – Something – Butthole Surfers – 1983

Specials – Stereotype/Stereotypes (Part 2) – More Specials – 1980
Macka B – Never Played A 45 -Change The World – 2012
Jacob Miller – Westbound Train – More Specials – 1980
10cc – Dreadlock Holiday – Bloody Tourists – 1978

Apples in Stereo – Wings Away -Travellers In Space And Time – 2010
Love – Lonely Pigs – Black Beauty – 1973
Paul McCartney – Too Many People – Ram – 1971
Badfinger – Perfection – Straight Up – 1972
NRBQ – Definition Of Love – Tiddlywinks – 1980

Wally Pleasant – Hippies’ Lament – Songs About Stuff – 1992
Modern Lovers – I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms – The Original Modern Lovers – 1972
The Feelies – Everybody’s Got Something To Hide (Except For Me and My Monkey) – Crazy Rhythms – 1980

Table – Do The Standing Still – Various: 1-2-3-4 Punk & New Wave 1976-1979 – 1977
The Skunks – Earthquake Shake – Punk 45: Kill the Hippies! Kill Yourself! The American Nation Destroys Its Young: Underground Punk in the United States of America 1973–1980 – 1979
Rich Kids – Rich Kids – Ghosts Of Princes In Towers – 1978
Sex Pistols – Did You No Wrong – God Save The Queen/ Did You Wrong – 1977
Nipple Erectors – Nervous Wreck – Bops, Babes, Booze & Bovver – 1978

Kevin Ayers – May I? – Shooting At The Moon – 1970
Vivian Stanshall – Calypso to Colapsu -Teddy Boys Don’t Knit – 1981
Roxy Music – Editions of You – For Your Pleasure – 1973

Pink Fairies – City Kids – Kings of Oblivion – 1973
Link Wray and His Ray Men – Fatback – Jack The Ripper – 1963
The Keggs – To Find Out – Various – 1967

Nick Lowe – My Heart Hurts – Nick the Knife – 1982

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Every hour a recording is lost and forgotten. They are left to collect dust in crates and in shelves. Some are given temporary homes in record store bins, but their voices are rarely heard. With your help, they are given a chance to shine and enter homes and shared with people across the world via Listen Up! every Monday.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965

The Warlocks – Shake The Dope Out – The Phoenix Album  – 2002
The Velvet Underground – Head Held High – Loaded – 1970
Hackamore Brick – Searchin’ -One Kiss Leads To Another – 1971
Flamin’ Groovies – Teenage Head – Teenage Head -1971

Feelies – Barstool Blues – Barstool Blues/I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms – 1990
Attila and The Huns – Under The Bodhi Tree – Under The Bodhi Tree -1989
Love – Message To Pretty – Love – 1966
Dillard and Clark – Lyin’ Down The Middle -The Fantastic Expedition of Dillard & Clark – 1968

Petra Haden – I Can See For Miles – Sings The Who Sell Out – 2005
Nancy Falkow – 1921 – Various: Who’s Not Forgotten, FDR’s Tribute To The Who – 2003
Mary McCaslin – Pinball Wizard – Old Friends – 1977
Yvonne Elliman – I Can’t Explain – Food For Love – 1973
Les Calamites – The Kids Are Alright – A Bride Abattue – 1984
Labelle – Won’t Get Fooled Again – Moonshadow – 1972

Pete Townshend – Pure and Easy – Who Came First – 1972

The Blues Magoos – Rush Hour – 1966-1969 – Kaleidescopic Compendium: The Best Of The Blues Magoos – 1966
Apple – Buffalo Billycan – Various: Rubble Vol. 20: Thrice Upon A Time (Nothing Is Real) – 1969
Status Quo – Paper Plane – Piledriver – 1973
Brotherhood – California Dreaming – Brotherhood Brotherhood – 1969

Marc Carroll – Now Or Never -Dust Of Rumour – 2009
The Show Stoppers – Nothing To Say Today -Turn On Your Lovelight/Nothing To Say Today – 1966
The Bee Gees – I’ll Know What To Do -Inception Nostalgia – 1970
Herman’s Hermits – My Reservation’s Been Confirmed -Both Sides Of Herman’s Hermits – 1966
The Black Hollies – Everything’s Fine -Softly Towards the Light – 2009

The Blank Stares – The Song That Brought The World To Ruin -All Blown Up – 2006
Sugergrass – Seen The Light – Life On Other Planets – 2002
T-Rex – Rip Off – Electric Warrior – 1971

The Stevens – From Puberty To Success – A History Of Hygiene – 2013
Game Theory – Nine Lives To Nigel Five -Distortion Of Glory – 1984

Blue Ash – Smash My Guitar – No More No Less – 1973

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

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Guys and ghouls all shout with zombies workin’ out. We are rockin’ in the crypt with songs that flop and flip!

The 3rd annual Listen Up! cool ghoul party is happening with a brand new dose of slimy, zany obscuro rock and roll, graveyard stompers and assorted other tricks and treats of a Halloweeny nature.

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level

Background Music

Los Straitjackets

The 4 Flops – Trick or Treat
Round Robin – I’m The Wolfman
Hasil Adkins – Haunted House
Ben Vaughn – P-S-Y-C-H-O
Hoodoo Gurus – Dig It Up

Zombie IV – Zombie!
The Fleshtones – Dracula A Gogo
Screaming Tribesmen – Date With A Vampyre
Positively 13 O’Clock – Psychotic Reaction

Ronnie Dawson – Rockin’ In The Cemetery
Fuzztones – Goin’ To A Graveyard
Yesterday’s Thoughts – Walking To Your Grave

One Way Streets – Jack The Ripper
Ralph Nieson & The Chancellors – Scream
Ervinna & The Stylers – Witch Queen Of New Orleans
Terry Gale – The Voodoo
The 7th Court – One Eyed Witch

The Invasion – The Invasion Is Coming
The Earth Boys – Space Girl
Bill Buchanan – Beware

The Crystals – Frankenstein Twist
Eddie Thomas – Frankenstein Rocks
Castle Kings – You Can Get Him Frankenstein
France Gall – Frankenstein
Carlos Casal Jr. – Don’t Mess With Frankenstein
Jekyll and Hyde – Frankenstein Meets The Beatles

The Who – Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
The Cramps – Human Fly

Jerry Wald – The Creeper
The A-Bones – Mum’s The Word
The Gravedigger V – Spooky

Don Hinson & The Rigamorticians – Phantom Of The Go-Go
Archie King – The Vampire
The Ebb-Tides – Seance
Steve King – Satan Is Her Name
Jan Davis – Watusi Zombie

1313 Mockingbird Lane – My Hearse (It’s Double Parked)

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune

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Enter a dreamlike word where known and unknown platters of sound are known to mesh into a decadent mind melting cocktail for your afternoon enjoyment.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965

Colin Lloyd Tucker – Suburbias Autumn – Mind Box – 1986
Pink Floyd – Remember a Day – Saucerful of Secrets – 1968
Opal – Empty Box Blues – Early Recordings – 198?
Sibylle Baier – I Lost Something In The Hills – Colour Green – 197?

The Incredible String Band – A Very Cellular Song -The Hangman’s Beautiful Daughter – 1968

The Church – Radiance – After Everything Now This – 2002
David Kilgour – Sun Of God -The Far Now – 2007

Faun Fables – Eyes of A Bird – Family Album – 2004
King Crimson – Cadence and Cascade – In The Wake Of Poseidon – 1970

The Limiñanas – Je ne suis pas trés drogué – The Limiñanas – 2010
Serge Gainsbourg – Putain que ma joie demeure – Madame Claude OST – 1977
Curved Air – Phantasmagoria – Phantasmagoria – 1972
Can – Mary, Mary So Contrary – Monster Movie – 1968

John Cale – Heartbreak Hotel – Slow Dazzle – 1975
Caravan – A Day in the Life of Maurice Haylett -If I Could Do It All Over Again, I’d Do It All Over You – 1970
Destroyer – Don’t Become The Thing You Hated – Your Blues – 2004
Robyn Hitchcock – The Ghost In You – The Man Upstairs – 2014

David Bowie – Lady Grinning Soul – Aladdin Sane – 1973
Genesis – A Place To Call My Own – From Genesis To Revelation – 1969
Syd Barrett – No Good Trying – The Madcap Laughs – 1970
Howard Eynon – Commitment To The Band -So What If Im Standing In Apricot Jam – 1975
Bill Fay – Time of My Last Persecution -Time Of The Last Persecution – 1971
Bridget St. John – Song For The Waterden Widow -Jumblequeen – 1974

Michael Hurley – Werewolf – Armchair Boogie -1971

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

Listen Up! is now available as a podcast at  listenupradio.podomatic.com

Things start to get dark and spooky for October,  Two hours of “psycho country” filled with creepy songs about “killin’ someone” from the classic country era of the 50’s thru the early 70’s.

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Playlist (Artist -Title)

 Man or Astroman – Maximum Radiation Level

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty

Wynn Stewart – I’m Gonna Kill You
Porter Wagoner – Banks of The Ohio
Glenn Barber – Motor Mouth Harry
George Kent – The Baltimore Incident

Jack Kittel – Psycho
Eddie Noack – Dolores
George Jones – Barbara Joy

Ann Clark – Johnny (What’s She Got That I Ain’t Got)
Carol Waggoner – Look Up Darling, While I Aim This .38
Judy Lynn – Hello Mr. DJ

Country Johnny Mathis – Caryl Chessman
Kinky Friedman – The Ballad of Charles Whitman
Red River Dave – California Hippie Murders

Wendell Austin – LSD Make A Wreck Of Me
John Cash – Cocaine Blues
Jimmie Skinner – One Dead Man Ago
Porter Wagoner – The First Mrs. Jones

Horace Heller – Ed’s Place
Boots Till – Shadows Of The Prison Bars
June Carter Cash – Tall Lover Man
Skeeter Davis – Give Me Death

Johnny Paycheck – Pardon Me, I Got Someone To Kill
Waylon Jennings – Delia’s Gone
Porter Wagoner – Julie
Willie Nelson – I Just Can’t Let You Say Goodbye

Harry Johnson – It’s Nothing To Me
Don Epperson – Revenge
Chuck Wells – Down And Out
Bobby Helms – He Thought He’d Die Laughing

Bobby Bare – Miller’s Cave
Billy Barton – The Devil, My Conscience and I
Billy Brown – One of The Ten Most Wanted Women
Lum Hatcher – Behind The Fear

Porter Wagoner – The Cold Hard Facts of Life

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune 

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Listen Up! is going international with a two hour trek around the world filled with psych and garage sounds from various countries in practically every continent.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song – *Country of Origin)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996 – USA

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965 – USA

Taste – Blister on the Moon – Taste – 1969 –  *Ireland
N.S.U. – Turn On, Or Turn Me Down- *Turn On, Or Turn Me Down – 1969 –  *Scotland
Great Scots – The Light Hurts My Eyes – Various: Wyld Canada Vol. 2: Shake Yourself Down – 1967 – *Canada
The Creatures – Ugly Thing – Various: Down Under Nuggets 1965-1967 – 1987   *Australia
Larry’s Rebels – I’ll Make You Happy – Various: Stop The Machine: Transworld Freakbeat Sounds And More! – 1967 – *New Zealand

The Snap Shots – Hip-Hip Hurray – Various: Stop The Machine: Transworld Freakbeat Sounds And More! – 1968 – *Belgium
Omega – Dead Are The Flowers – Omega Red Star From Hungary – 1968 *Hungary
Les 5 Gentlemen – LSD 25 Ou Les Metamorphoses De Margaret Steinway – Les 5 Gentlemen – 1967 –  *France

Kaleidoscope – Colours –  Various: Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 2 Latin American – 1968 – *Puerto Rico
La Revolución De Emiliano Zapata – En Medio De La Lluvia – Various: Love, Peace & Poetry: Mexican Psychedelic Music – 1972 – *Mexico
Les Loups Noirs – Pile Ou Face – Various: Haiti Direct –  1972 – *Haiti

Los Gatos – Cuando LLegue El Ano 2000 –  Various: Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 2 Latin American – 1968 – *Argentina
The Aftermads – Sweating Soul –  Various: Primer Festival Beat Del Paraguay – 1970 – *Paraguay
Laghonia – Someday – Various: Love, Peace & Poetry Vol 2 Latin American – 1971  *Peru

The Jacks – Marianne – Vacant World – 1968 *Japan
Juan De La Cruz Band – Shake Your Brains – Shake Your Brains –  1976 – *Philippines
The Quest – 26 Miles –  Various: Love, Peace & Poetry: Asian Psychedelic Music ’67-’77 – 1976 –  *Singapore

Witch – Little Clown – Lazy Bones!!  – 1975 – *Zambia
Ofege – Gbe Mi Lo – Various: Love, Peace And Poetry  African Psychedelic Music – 1973 –  *Nigeria
Freedom’s Children – Gentle Beasts Part 1 – Various:  Love, Peace And Poetry African Psychedelic Music – 1970 – *South Africa

Taboo – Queen Of Spades –  Various: Norsk Beat 5 – 1968 -*Norway
The Tages – Fuzzy Pattern –  Contrast – 1967 – *Sweden
Stomps – My Parents – Various: International Times (1967-74) – 196? – *Denmark
Group 1850 – Zero –  1967-1968 – 1968 – *Netherlands

Phil Clinton & Peter Smith – She’s Born Loser – Various:  A Trip? Just a Little Beat: A Taste of Pure Psychedelia in the Italian 60s – 196?  –  *Italy
Fabio – Lindo Sonho Deilrante –  Various: Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas – 1968 – *Brazil
Ram and Sel – Screw You – Exploiting Plastic Inevitable Vol. 2: Globular Lightning – 1970 – *West Germany

Pacific Sound – The Drug Just Told Me – Forget Your Dream – 1972 –  *Switzerland

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997 – USA

Listen Up! is now available as a podcast at  listenupradio.podomatic.com

Listen Up! returns with more explorations in the music labyrinth. We will play tribute to one of the founders of the great Flying Nun/Dunedin Sound; Peter Gutteridge, who passed away last week. Hear his music with The Chills, The Clean, The Great Unwashed, Snapper & The Puddle, in addition to a variety of other unrelated sounds for your afternoon escape.

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Playlist (Artist -Title- Album – Year of song)

Opening Theme

Man or Astroman? – Maximum Radiation Level – Experiment Zero – 1996

Background Music

Phil Kraus And Bob Rosengarden – Percussion: Playful And Pretty -1965

Cockney Rebel – Ritz – Psychomodo – 1974
The Church – Song In Space – Forget Yourself – 2003
David Bowie – Quicksand – Hunky Dory – 1971

Cooley-Munson – In Debt – In Debt – 1972
Euphoria – Lady Bedford – A Gift From Euphoria – 1969

Peter Gutteridge – Hang On – Pure – 1989
The Clean – Point That Thing Somewhere Else – Boodle, Boodle, Boodle – 1982
The Chills – Rolling Mood – Kaleidoscope World – 1986

The Puddle – Into The Moon – Into The Moon – 1992
The Great Unwashed – Duane Eddy – Singles – 1982
Snapper – Cause Of You – Snapper EP – 1988
Yo La Tengo – Gentle Hour – Various: Dark Was the Night – 2009

The Lilys – Paz en el Hogar – Better Can’t Make Your Life Better – 1996
Ngozi Family – Hi Babe – Day of Judgement – 1975
The Green Pajamas – Deadly Nightshade – Narcotic Kisses –   2000
Daevid Allen – Children of The New World – Good Morning – 1976

Dead Skeletons – Dead Mantra – Dead Magick Part One – 2011

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band – Party of Special Things to Do – Bluejeans & Moonbeams – 1974
White Witch – Crystallize and Realize – A Spiritual Greeting – 1974

Roxy Music – Triptych – Country Life – 1974
Big Star – Holocaust (Demo)  – Keep An Eye On The Sky [Box Set] – 1974
The Velvet Underground – That’s The Story of My Life – The Velvet Underground – 1969

Peter Gutteridge – Don’t Catch Fire – Various: Stroke: Songs for Chris Knox – 2010

Closing Theme

Silly Pillows – Groovy Tune – New Affections  – 1997

Listen Up! is now available as a podcast at  listenupradio.podomatic.com